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Some useful Vim-commands

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There are numerous pages and blog posts about Vi and Vim out there so here’s my small contribution. Here are some less frequently used commands that tends to be useful from time to time:

Delete lines patching pattern
:g/pattern/d
Go to position previously modified
g;
Go to next modified position in change list
g,
Create bookmark in file
mLETTER
Go to bookmark
'LETTER
Change highlighted text to upper case
gU
Open file under cursor
gf
Coopy text mathich pattern to register a
:/pattern/yank A
Paste text from register a
"ap
Reduce split window size
C-w -
Increase split window size
C-w +
Make split windows equally big
C-w =

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Written by hgrimelid

May 14th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

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